Winn-Dixie hiring culinary staff for remodeled stores

Winn-Dixie Stores is hiring culinary staff, a wine steward and managers for seven remodeled supermarkets planned for Broward and Miami-Dade counties, said David Gamble, regional human resources manager, on Tuesday.

Gamble, who was taking applications at the JobNews job fair in Miami Lakes, said he's looking for workers with culinary training to offer more prepared foods in the stores, as well as workers for Winn-Dixie's hallmark meat business.

The company plans to renovate 17 Winn-Dixie locations across the country this year. Last summer, Winn-Dixie opened one of the first prototype locations in Margate. Three more updated locations, two in Miami and another in Hallandale Beach, are under construction and set to open later this year.

Winn-Dixie closed at least 13 South Florida stores since 2010. The Jacksonville-based supermarket chain has been trying to emerge from bankruptcy.